Author: Alexi Gugushvili | Journal of Democracy

Alexi Gugushvili is a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and an affiliated fellow at the Center for Social Sciences in Tbilisi. In 2011, he was visiting research fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

January 2013, Volume 24, Issue 1

A New Chance for Georgian Democracy

Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr
Alexi Gugushvili

In October 2012, Georgia’s government lost power in an election, and peacefully stepped aside. But can a country with Georgia’s troubled history capitalize on this surprising achievement?